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Re: OK...Which people are tougher? U.S. or British?
• Officials: Angry youth, plentiful guns behind murder spike in City of Brotherly Love
• Philadelphia's increase in homicides more than twice the national rate
• Feds vow $50 million to fight urban violence in cities across nation
• Police chief says guns, post-9/11 shift in priorities contributed to spike
By Kevin Bohn
CNN Washington Bureau
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PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Isaac Diaz walks through the toughest parts of North Philadelphia each day on his way to and from high school. But what really scares the 18-year-old senior is lying in his own bed at night.
He can hear the gunshots then.
"Last year it wasn't so often. Now it's as often as every night," Diaz recently told CNN. "It might be your best friend dying, and you don't even know about it."
Out on the street, Diaz said, a casual stroll can suddenly turn deadly. (Watch Diaz explain how he lives with daily gunfire )
"You don't know what's going to happen," he said. "You don't know if you're walking in the neighborhood and a guy from middle school sees you and he just had a bad incident with his mother and father and he's walking around with a gun."
"I'm afraid every day."
Philadelphia is just one of the nation's cities trying to deal with a murder spike. As of Wednesday, 150 people have been slain in the city, compared to 140 by this time last year.
The numbers put Philadelphia on a pace well ahead of a bloody 2006, when 406 people were slain by others in the so-called City of Brotherly Love. It was the first time homicides topped the 400 mark since 1990. (Watch a mother grieve over a son shot for his car )
Nationally, violent crime is spiking, too.
FBI data from December, the most recent statistics available, show murders and robberies rose by 3.7 percent nationwide during the first six months of 2006.
Those findings came on top of a 2.2 percent crime hike in 2005 -- the first increase since 2001.
Guns plentiful
The spike prompted Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to order a study of violence in 18 cities. The results were released earlier this week, when Gonzales announced that the Justice Department would spend $50 million to combat urban violence.
The Justice Department concluded that the increased violence is caused by a younger and more violent generation of criminals who have easy access to guns. Many are loosely organized into street gangs and crews.
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/05/16/philly.homicides/index.html
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Re: OK...Which people are tougher? U.S. or British?
**** off--i might be forced to show you just how tough real cov boot boys are
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